Interprocess communication, I guess...

[crptcblade]

Does Java have a way to communicate between two different programs? Like in C++/VB, you can use SendMessage and other APIs to affect aspects of another program. It seems to me that it would have something like this set up, but nothing comes to mind.

[VirtuallyVB]

I'm pretty sure that you would use "native method" calls for that specific example.

I looked into this a while back:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutor...tep/index.html

What wasn't clear to me was that you might have to recompile the dll that has the function and include jni.h. I don't like that idea because we may not have the source code to be able to recompile. If we have the existing dll, I would hope that Java would have access to its functions.

Also check out
static{
System.loadLibrary("someDLL");
}

If you find out how, please post your solution and put "resolved".